Stop Thwarting the People's Will RICHARD J. RIORDAN and DANIEL P. GARCIA, Richard J. Riordan is mayor of Los Angeles. Daniel P. Garcia is senior vice president at Warner Bros. and past chairman of the Greater L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce board

Millennium Pandemonium Kevin Phillips, Kevin Phillips, publisher of American Political Report, is author of "The Politics of Rich and Poor." His new book is "Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street and the Frustrations of American Politics" (Little Brown)

Kitty Carlisle Hart Steve Proffitt, Steve Proffitt, a contributing editor to Opinion, is project director of the Hajjar and Partners New Media Lab. He spoke with Kitty Carlisle Hart in Chatsworth, where she was visiting her son

Cold War Is Gone, But Plutonium Remains Robert A. Manning, Robert A. Manning, a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, was a State Department official from 1989-93. He is the author of "Back to the Future: Toward a Post-Nuclear Ethic," a study of nuclear weapons and proliferation (Progressive Foundation)

Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish on the CPI MICHAEL J. BOSKIN, MICHAEL J. BOSKIN, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, is Tully M. Friedman professor of economics and senior fellow, Hoover Institution, at Standford University